Why does sugar orange have the title of "killer orange"

Sugar orange becomes "killer orange"? Sugar orange looks like a mini version of orange, but compared with oranges, sugar orange is sweeter, so many friends can't stop eating it, and soon there will be only one bag of orange peel left.

However, in recent years, sugar oranges have a bluff, that is, "kill oranges." There are many sayings on the Internet that sugar oranges become killer oranges. One of the most common is that "oranges are easy to get angry when eaten too much, and sugar oranges are too delicious to stop." If you eat too much, it will be harmful to your health. " However, it is obviously too exaggerated to define sugar orange as "killer orange" just because it is easy to get angry after eating too much. Therefore, there must be other reasons behind the sugar orange. Let's find out the real reason.

Sugar orange

Sugar orange is a kind of citrus fruit, named for its sweet taste and sweetness like sugar. Under normal circumstances, sugar oranges bloom in late March and mature in late September. 65438+ October is the gold picking season, so sugar orange is also called October orange.

Citrus, as our most common fruit, belongs to a big family and has hundreds of different varieties. But these varieties are mostly hybrids, varieties and cultivated varieties. The real citrus actually refers to the three protozoa of citrus, namely, orange (which we often eat), grapefruit and citron.

These three plants originally lived in the wild environment, and they were cultivated artificially only after their fruits were found to be edible. But in the process of artificial cultivation, these three kinds of fruit trees began to be restless as early as 2300 years ago. Because they grew together under artificial cultivation, oranges and grapefruit took the lead in "cheating" and actually crossed with oranges we often eat.

Then grapefruit and citron also crossed to produce lime. At this point, the citrus hybrid officially began. Our common citrus pomelo, kumquat, Maogu orange, orange orange, etc. are all new varieties of their hybridization, backcross and even hybrids, while the sugar orange we are talking about today is a variety produced after many times of hybridization.

However, in the animal kingdom, hybrid offspring are often infertile, even backcrossing is difficult, but in citrus plants, they can cross and backcross freely, and hybrids have normal reproductive ability (there are seeds in the fruits, and the seeds can germinate into new plants), which is why we choose diverse citrus fruits now.

Sugar orange becomes "killer orange"?

At first glance, it is no problem to say that eating too much sugar orange can cause excessive internal heat. After all, eating too many oranges is really easy to get angry. This is because oranges have high fructose content and the body consumes more sugar. When too much sugar is broken down, the body will produce pro-inflammatory proteins, leading to oral inflammation.

But as the saying goes, "extremes meet", it's not good to eat too much. Even if you eat enough sugar oranges, it doesn't kill people. Obviously, this explanation is too far-fetched In fact, the name of "killing oranges" of sugar oranges is "killing people too much". Why do you say that?

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for fruits is increasing. Because of its good taste and increasing market demand, the planting area of sugar oranges in China is also expanding rapidly, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi. As the largest producer of sugar oranges, the planting area of sugar oranges ranks first in the country.

The planting area of sugar oranges in China has increased from more than one million mu in the past to four million mu in just a few years. According to the yield of 4000 Jin per mu, the yield of sugar orange in China is 654.38+0.6 billion Jin. According to the current population, it is obviously impossible for everyone in China to eat more than 65.438+00 Jin of sugar oranges to digest such a large supply. After all, people who seldom eat sugar oranges are still big.

This will lead to an imbalance between supply and demand, and the fruit farmers who are most affected are undoubtedly followers. They have invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and as a result, the fruits are unsalable. Once the fruit is ripe and not picked and sold in time, it is very easy to rot and deteriorate. So some people can say that it is completely annihilated. At this time, sugar orange has become a "killer orange" in the mouth of some fruit farmers. After all, they have been busy for a year and devoted themselves.

Of course, today's slow sales of many sugar oranges are not only a problem of overcapacity, but also a problem of taste. For consumers, the most intuitive thing we can feel is that some sugar oranges are not as delicious as before. This is not because they are picky eaters, but because of the following two reasons:

First, the different producing areas of sugar oranges cause different tastes. As the saying goes, "orange in the south and bitter orange in the north" means that the same fruit tree is orange in the south, but it has become bitter orange in the north. Sugar orange is the same. In China, the origin of sugar oranges is in Guangdong and Guangxi.

However, with the increasing demand for sugar oranges, its producing areas are also expanding, and the climate in different regions affects the taste of sugar oranges.

Second, the variety of sugar orange. There are also varieties of sugar oranges. What kind of varieties are more attractive to growers? The answer is obviously high yield, so when planting sugar oranges, many areas choose to explore high yield, but the pursuit of excessive high yield is easy to cause "one thing and one thing", thus reducing the taste of sugar oranges.

In recent years, the word "assassin" has appeared, such as ice cream assassin, but sugar orange can't really "kill people", but it has become the "assassin" of many growers. They emptied the pockets of fruit farmers and consumed their energy, but in the end they gained little or even lost all their money, so they got the title of "killing oranges"